“Who is there?” Metaphysics and desconstruction of the interpretation

Abstract

 This paper supposes that the analyst is not concerned in his own practice with the very element that makes it possible – l’écute, or the listening in the hearing. Heidegger finds a similar refusal in metaphysics, a science that does not pose to itself the question of its own possibility. In psychoanalytical terms, this sort of refusal amounts to the impossibility of thinking psychoanalysis as an hermeneutics of the reception of sense. On the other hand, Freud’s own considerations concerning the economy of the psychic apparatus seems to offer a non-metaphysical alternative, an hermeneutics of the impossibility of interpretation and of the boundaries of sense that gives the analyst privileged access to some other kind of sense.